Media Reports

Claudia Astorino writes in The Guardian newspaper on the real Michael Phelps girlfriend story: To the media outlets interested in writing truthfully about intersex people: focus on who we are as human beings. Raise awareness that we exist, and that we’re fighting for our basic human rights: it’s been routine since the 50s to medically… Read more →

The UK Equal Rights Trust has just published testimony by OII Australia president, Gina Wilson, in The Equal Rights Review, Vol. 10. Gina talks about her personal background, her work as an activist, and the issues we face in seeking human rights, including intersex and the sex binary, the medical model, invisibility in human rights… Read more →

Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis have another article on IOC sex testing today, in The Guardian: Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) quietly dropped what may prove to be a bomb in the middle of the already explosive question of who can compete in women’s events in the 2012 London summer Games. The new… Read more →

We’re concerned about the credibility of this report, and the original one, just as we’re incredulous when we hear a report of a sex change via bee sting, reported as fact. Man and father, woman or intersex? While we wish good luck to this family, what is most disturbing about this meme is that… Read more →

HIKER Chiu of Organization Intersex International Chinese carries her message about intersex people being normal and even huggable around the world via her Free hugs with intersex campaign. Her most recent appearance was at the 5th Hong Kong Sex Cultural Festival. YouTube.com – 2012_03_05_香港性文化節記者會_hiker Chiu: Hiker Chiu, founder of OII Chinese, for the 5th Hong Kong… Read more →

LEGAL advocate for intersex people Anne Tamar-Mattis of Advocates for Informed Choice – AIC has further contributed to public education about intersex people in a recent, at-length and in-depth interview with San Francisco Bay Area radio station KPFA. The program – now available as a downloadable MP3 file – was broadcast on the Against the Grain program on Monday, March 5, 2012. Remember… Read more →

GERMAN online publication taz.de reports on how the Greens are urging the German Senate to stop delaying acting on one-year-old reports and recommendations and stand up for Germany’s many oppressed intersex citizens. The following note in the article about one of the most popular misconceptions about intersex stands out for us: Der Hintergrund für dieses Missverständnis ist wohl, dass Intersexualität… Read more →

THE videos of the morning sessions from the White House LGBT Health Conference in Philadelphia on Thursday February 16 2012 are now online and available for viewing at any time. Dana Zzyym, an intersex activist and OII United States member attended the conference and asked a set of questions only to receive a brief and… Read more →